Governance

The Institut quantique (IQ) became a research institute of the Université de Sherbrooke on February 15,2016. IQ is composed of a governing board, an institute council, a steering committee as well as committees, including a student committee.

The institute council

The institute council is responsible for the pivotal decisions regarding the direction and governance of the Institute. The President is accountable to the University’s Executive Committee through the Vice-President responsible for research. Specifically, the Institute Board approves the strategic plan and scientific programming, the annual budget and the annual report. It is currently composed of:

Pr Jean-Pierre Perreault, Vice-President responsible for research;

Pr Patrik Doucet Dean, Faculty of engineering;

Pr Serge Jandl Dean, Faculty of science;

Steering committee

The steering committee identifies the broad research directions and emerging areas of interest for the development of the Institute. It identifies opportunities for scientific collaboration with external partners and supports management in its search for collaborators and acts as an ambassador in the activities to which it is invited. Its members will come from the academic or private sector.

Governing board

The governing board is the executive body of the Institute. His mandate is to:

coordinate and support the operations necessary to produce a long-term Institute development plan in consultation with the membership assembly and steering committee;

ensure the dissemination and transfer of information among members of the Institute, between its research teams and with their scientific partners;

coordinate the joint actions necessary for the advancement of the research work of the members of the Institute and to propose appropriate actions for the implementation of the Institute’s development plan;

stimulate scientific collaborations among the members of the Institute, by coordinating networking activities between researchers and organizing scientific activities (seminars, conferences, etc.);

encourage technology transfer and favor, if possible, the start-up of emerging businesses, patenting of discoveries by members of the Institute, in collaboration with SARIC and other appropriate bodies;

admit members of the Institute.

The members of the governing board are:

The Scientific Director, Professor Alexandre Blais (Faculty of Science);
the Deputy Director, Professor Michel Pioro-Ladrière (Faculty of Science);
the Chief of Operations of the Institute, Christian Sarra-Bournet;
the IQ Partnership Development officer, Patricia Fournier (Vice-Rector of Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship).